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# Senior DBA/Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Northern Ireland
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon S3, Cloud Storage, Data Governance, Data Stores, Integrated Development Environments, PostgreSQL, Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Information Technology, Vertica
- **Published:** October 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/senior-dbaplatform-engineer/50584333

## About the Role

successful candidate will be an integral part of a dynamic team, working in a fast-paced development environment, generating creative solutions to solve customer needs and challenges. The successful candidate will be actively involved in driving technical decisions within the team, with a desire to produce high quality software to provide a superior client experience.Education requirements:A University degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or related fieldExperience:5+ years relevant software engineering and development experienceProactive attitude with great communications skills, attention to detail, self-motivated, and the ability to work well with people are essentialEssential Criteria:5+ years in a DBA / platform roleOLAP experienceMergeTree family design, partitioning, TTLs, materialised views, Distributed tables and shardingETL/ELT pipeline design and operation; batch + near-real-timeParquet and object storage (Azure Blob or S3) as a query
tierQuery performance tuning and capacity planningStrong SQL; PostgreSQL competenceDesired Criteria:Clickhouse production experience at billions-of-rows scaleAzure specifics: managed identity, Private Link, storage account patternsLambda-style speed/batch architectures; re-runnable partitionsSecurity event or observability data domainsStatistical functions in ClickHouse (quantiles, entropy, windowed aggregates)System IntegrationAgile developmentCompany Benefits:Pension scheme.Flexible working hours and hybrid work options.Health insurance and wellness programs.Generous holiday leave and paid time off.Flexible working policyVolunteer policy #J-18808-Ljbffr

## Description

Job Title: Senior DBA / platform engineerDepartment: EngineeringReports To: Team LeadWorking Pattern: Hybrid - minimum 2 day per week in Belfast officeLocation: Belfast, Northern Ireland (Role is NI based. Candidate must have right to live and work in UK)Salary: NegotiableCompany background:Congruity360 is headquartered in Boston with employees across the US, England and Northern Ireland. The Congruity360 flagship product, Classify360, enables clients to reduce their financial and data risk by increasing their data understanding, classification, and security, allowing clients to meet all of the current, new, and changing laws, regulations, and business drivers. In other words, making intelligent business decisions.Job Summary:A new product offering is emerging from concept phase, which expands our solution set from compliance and data governance into cybersecurity. This role offers the opportunity to work in emerging technologies with a primary focus on a data store skillset. The